Magazines

Wyndeham Group will keep Southernprint open, despite the loss of the IPC Media contract, thanks to a new working time agreement with staff.

The new owner of Advent Colour, the circa £8m turnover Andover-based commercial printer sold in a pre-pack deal a month ago, has been revealed in documents filed at Companies House.

Online publishing platform Blurb has taken over HP’s MagCloud business.

Polestar has parted company with the managing director of its Bicester web offset site.

Polestar is making headway on the extension to its Sheffield site that will house the first of its new web offset presses later this year.

IPC Media has officially confirmed that it has awarded its entire multimillion-pound print contract to Polestar, effective from July.

IPC Media has handed its multi-million pound print contract to a single supplier, in a move that has far-reaching ramifications for the UK magazine printing supply chain.

Polestar has boosted its contractual business in France with a new contract win from Groupe Marie Claire.

Polestar chief operating officer Peter Andreou has been in the States this week to review progress on the construction of the first tranche of its new web presses from Goss International.

Polestar has filed its first set of results since acquiring BGP and Stones, and chief executive Barry Hibbert has further joint ventures and acquisitions in his sights for this year.

Looking barely old enough to be in HMV on his own, Jamie Cullum has gone and confused the issue even further. The fresh-faced singer-songwriter and instrumentalist has now published his own magazine...

Westdale Press has reversed its high-profile order for a KBA Rapida 106, announced at last year's Drupa, and returned instead to incumbent supplier Heidelberg for two new 10-colour B1 perfectors.